Senseless Waste

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Senseless Waste – 31 October 2008

The senseless waste of the world’s growing
meat-centered diet is illustrated by a hypothetical statement put
forth by the Population Reference Bureau: “If everyone adopted a
vegetarian diet and no food were wasted, current [food] production
would theoretically feed 10 billion people [49 percent more people
than alive today], more than the projected population for the year
2050.”
From “101 Reasons Why I’m a Vegetarian” by Pamela Ricewww.vivavegie.org/itoc

Most humans in the West seem to be in a self-destructive mode, and
unfortunately it appears that they’re determined to take others with
them. One glaring example of this is Heifer International (Heifer
Project) who send out their propaganda in the form of a holiday
catalogue (filled with photos of smiling children and celebrity words of
praise) this time of year.

With heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and other diseases dramatically
increasing in countries where the Western diet heavy on meat and dairy
is copied, why would anyone want to introduce these problems in Third
World countries? It has become common knowledge that meat and dairy
products are especially detrimental to the health of many of the people
in the countries to whom these animals are sent.

And as though the introduction of diseases were not bad enough, why
spread the environmental devastation that follows the introduction of
animal farming?

"Joyful Curmudgeon"
An oxymoron?
No! I see all the beauty of God's creation and I'm joyful. At the
same time, I see all the suffering and corruption going on in the
world, and feel called to help expose and end it so that we may have true
peace and compassion.